On Fox & Friends: More Hysteria Over Muslim 'War On Christians'

Last week, Fox combined their patented Muslims suck meme with their patented Christians are persecuted meme in a trifecta of stories about how Christians are being persecuted by Muslims and, even worse, President Obama is doing nothing about it. Megyn Kelly's interview with an anti-Islamic guest appeared to be a rational discussion. (It wasn't). Shannon Bream's report appeared to be a rational "fair & balanced" presentation. (It wasn't) And rounding out the trifecta, was a Fox & Friends piece that dispensed with any semblance of rationality regarding the issue. Obviously, the plight of Christians, in nations where they are persecuted, is worthy of a serious and objective discussion. It didn't happen on Fox & Friends where Peter Johnson Jr. got nearly hysterical.

While the chyron read "Global Persecution, Christians Struggle For Survival Overseas" and the graphic for "Fight for Faith" appeared, Brian Kilmeade reported on "the latest attack on Christianity overseas." He described these attacks, one of which, reportedly, involved a Christian who"got 80 lashes" for drinking wine during communion. Kilmeade got his facts wrong because the Fox News.com article states that, according to some Christian group, the Iranian Christians were "sentenced" to the lashes. His voice rising, he asked Johnson "why are Christians being persecuted abroad and why isn't anybody talking about this." Roger Ailes personal attorney, litigator for the Catholic archdiocese of NY, and Catholic Knight of Malta, Peter Johnson Jr, said "we're talking about it and it's literally a fight for faith."

Johnson excitedly described recent attacks on Christians by "Islamic extremists." The chyron reinforced the message: "Ungodly Punishment." Brian Kilmeade sputtered that Christians must be asking why this is happening because "it's not like we're on the offensive." Johnson said that this is "a horribly ignored issue" and that "Christians are under attack in the Middle East and around the world." He wrongly attributed an article, about this persecution, to the Los Angeles Times when it was in the Washington Post. Not pausing for breath he accused the US and the UN of not responding to these attacks.

As the chyron read "Casualties of Jihad,"Brain Brian Kilmeade suggested that the US and UN tell these countries if that they don't "secure" their Christians "the aid is going to stop our troops aren't gonna keep coming." (Huh?) Johnson blithered about how Fox viewers are tweeting "stop the aid now." Tying the patented Fox anti-PC meme into the discussion, Johnson asked asked if "we are too PC to say" whether there is "religious terror" as opposed to "political terror." He praised the Vatican for speaking out and taking a strong role because "they speak out for all religions but they should be speaking up for Christianity."

So along with all his other crimes against humanity, President Obama, according to Fox News, isn't doing enough to help Christians. It's obviously a complicated issue, but not for Fox & Friends which keeps it simple - minded!

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The fact that christianity in America is seriously declining makes this kind of crap more palatable. They can whine, posture and pretend all they want, but they’re doing little more than driving the sane and rational away. It’s really no surprise that they’re blaming President Obama…it’s always the fault of somebody else with these fucks.

Another issue was that no one ever brings up the wonderful Christian Crusades to the holy land. They manage to take many many Muslim lives take trying to take back the holy land so who was fighting: that time? Sounds like we had a war on Muslims long before there was a walk on Christians which I don’t believe there is any such thing as a war on Christians by Muslims. Probably most Christians don’t even realize that the Muslims accept Jesus as part of their belief system and all of the apostles and in the writings of the New Testament. Fox does its best to promote ignorance among all of its viewers who are so apathetic and uneducated that they Don’t have an original thought of their own! They wouldn’t bother to look anything up to see how true what they say is. They are driving a wedge between different faith communities in this country which promotes the cause of prejudice and bitter feelings for many many years to come all in the name of great ratings and lots of money for their cooperation!

Here’s a suggestion for the purveyors of the persecution meme: Spend as much time speaking up for the rights of oppressed and persecuted religious and other groups in THIS country where we’re supposed to have “freedom of religion” (although FoxNoise doesn’t seem to realize this with its routine attacks on Muslims and atheists) before demanding changes be made in countries that DON"T have freedom of religion.

And then, you could also spend a few minutes talking about how other groups are routinely persecuted by CHRISTIANS in other countries. You’ve got gays in Russia being targeted by the Russian Orthodox Church (a Christian faith which has the kind of power in Russia that the religious right can only dream about in this country) and gays in Uganda being targeted by evangelical Christian leaders (with the loving guidance of American evangelical Christians).